A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Physicians found that: the heart Adding salt to foods in small amounts is associated with a lower risk of heart disease, heart failure, and ischemic heart disease. salt Improve your heart health, according to “scitechdaily.”
“We found that people who eat less salt are often less likely to develop heart disease, regardless of lifestyle factors and pre-existing disease,” the researchers said.
They also found that when patients combined the DASH diet with a low frequency of salt addition, they had a lower risk of heart disease. This is beneficial because reducing salt in foods, not eliminating salt completely, is a factor that helps to prevent.
Researchers assessed whether the frequency of adding salt to foods was associated with heart disease risk in 176,570 UK Biobank participants. The study also looked at the relationship between the frequency of adding salt to foods and the DASH diet in relation to heart disease risk.
The study primarily used a questionnaire to collect data on how often salt is added to foods, excluding salt used in cooking.
Participants were also asked if they had made any significant changes to their diet in the past five years, as well as completing 1-5 24-hour nutritional reminder cycles over a three-year period.
The DASH diet was developed to prevent high blood pressure by limiting the consumption of red and processed meat and focusing on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, nuts and legumes.
Although the DASH diet has reported benefits in terms of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, a recent clinical study found that combining the DASH diet with sodium reduction was more beneficial for some cardiac biomarkers, including heart injury, stress and inflammation .
Data on cardiac events were collected through medical history, hospital admissions data, questionnaires, and death registry data.
